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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6652404" data-attributes="member: 5834">You ain't kidding. I can't emphasize enough how much I miss Pathfinder APs. So much more interesting than WotC big modules. If Pathfinder came out with a system similar to 5E, I'd be all over that just to get back to using their adventures without needing as much mechanical modification. I'd probably be ok with a few more rules, though I do prefer hand-waving unnecessary stuff like climbing and swimming checks, overly complicated grappling rules, and skills for the most part. I thought I would love skills in 3E due to my love of GURPS, but I grew to hate them, especially Knowledge skills. My players wanted to roll for every monster they met to find some useful piece of information like a knowledge skill meant they were a biologist with a PhD on nearly every creature. Each character with the knowledge skill rolled. Monsters completely lost their mystery once knowledge skills became useful for that ability. I much prefer knowledge skills to be background based than codified. I prefer only important skills that affect combat be codified. Background or knowledge type skills I prefer to be left in the hands of the DM for use when appropriate or obvious circumstances like Arcana being used to figure out a magical door or trap or Survival being used to track or survive in the wilderness.</blockquote>